DUBLIN - First match for Mario against his ex hated team. This image could be from Manchester derby, as Sneijder could join United soon.
It could even be at least 5-0, as the referee didn't concede 2 other goals, one was clearly regular. But it ended as the last Milan derby eh eh.
City’s preparations for the new season continued in fine style when they beat Inter Milan in Dublin.
Goal just either side of half time from Balotelli and Dzeko put City ahead, and Adam Johnson added a third at the death, but David Silva pulled the strings with a superb display. The win also gave City the Dublin Super Cup.
Roberto Mancini’s team selection indicated a serious approach to the game, with more than one eye on being in the right place for next week’s Community Shield derby at Wembley. Not surprisingly it was a completely different starting eleven to the one that had walked out to face the Airtricity Irish XI just over 24 hours earlier.
There was a welcome return for Yaya Toure after the worrying ankle injury that had blighted his North American tour, but Gael Clichy missed out because of the after-effects of the blow to the head he took in LA and there was to be no role for Sergio Aguero.
In sharp contrast to Saturday’s lethargic fare, there was a lively start to proceedings when City had the ball in the net within seconds of the start. Silva rolled it past Soares but the lurking presence of Mario Balotelli ruled the ‘goal’ offside.
The enigmatic Italian continued to be in the thick of it in the early stages, going over with a flying header shortly after the offside decision, and then drawing a fine save out of Soares from point-blank range. Between these chances David Silva showed off his wonderful talent with a run in from the right that briefly threatened to match his superb goal at Bloomfield Road last autumn.
18 minutes in and it was Edin Dzeko’s turn to see a goal chalked off, harshly judged offside when Aleks Kolarov was crossing from the left. The Bosnian striker stung Soares’ palms on the half hour, the chance coming from yet more fine work from Silva.
Inter’s keeper was in action again just before the break, tipping a Balotelli effort over the bar, and getting a playful boot to the backside from his former team mate for his pains.
But it was Mario who had the last laugh seconds later when he put City into a deserved lead, nodding home the corner that Soares had conceded.

City extended their lead just after the resumption, Edin Dzeko latching onto a sublime pass from Silva and then clinically despatching the ball past the Inter keeper. After a quiet time of it his previous pre-season outings, it was a timely boost for the striker’s confidence.
Joe Hart had a quiet afternoon but was alert enough to pull off a brilliant reaction save when the ball deflected off Chivu at a free kick. He was clawing the air seconds later when Stankovic went just wide with a volley from long range.
There were few alarms at either end after that, with Adam Johnson tapping in a simple third in injury time after fine work from Shaun Wright-Phillips. David Silva was deservedly named man of the match.
Performances in pre-season games can occasionally look disjointed as teams get back to full match fitness and look to sterner tests ahead, but it was not the case at the Aviva Stadium for City. The Blues were confident and comfortable, and they look in great shape ahead of the challenge of United next Sunday.
Inter will play the derby the day before for the Italian SuperCup vs AC Milan.

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BUDAPEST - At his 200th Grand Prix, Jenson Button won the Hugarian race, a bit wet as his first win in Formula 1, Hungary 2006.
I had told you: sack Lewis Hamilton. The only great driver is Button, all the others were driving more on the grass as lawnmowers... You can see the great driver when the conditions are difficult (not a case that Senna was great under the rain), and this season Button also won an impossible Canada GP. Today's mixed conditions are even worse. And his strategies are always different and perfect.
As I said time ago, Vettel is so overrated... now you can see he was always winning thanks to the car.
I was happy that Lewis won last week in Germany, but as usual he has no fair play and got a "drivethrough" penalty when he could win and it would have been a double for McLaren.
Now one month of holidays for the drivers, as Beady Eye :).
- 40 days to Monza, can't wait.

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BRIGHTON - One for a Sunday breakfast ;), video+slideshow dedicated to Noel Gallagher blaming Pretty Green. My bed in the country house at the end, rooarrrrr lol. Strange that Liam hasn't launched anything in his leopard skin yet... maybe he wants to be the only one prettygreener with those shoes. He's the leader, the Ace Face. Stay tuned... ;)

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Let's go on with the "top 5", now books. I knew, as Manchester City fans have a Nazi as idol (the German goalkeeper Trautmann), the Gallaghers are two Nazis, lol joking. Also because it seems (but just seems) they hate everyone. Liam with his military clothes, tattoo and Elvis philosophy accused of nazism, Noel with all his opinions about politics against communists, environmentalists, pacifists. The last main Oasis video, "The shock of the lightining" had German iron crosses, that are used in videos and videogames to mean a swastika.

"This is a product of Elvis's childhood friends sitting around and reminiscing on everything from high school in Memphis to Elvis traveling around the fairgrounds and doing the hayrides, through to Vegas and up to his death. He had a pet chimp. They trained it to look up girl' skirts. Then Elvis got bored of the chimp and they put him outside in a cage. The chimp froze to death".

"Agent Zigzag" - Ben Macintyre

"Eddie Chapman is a low-level crook in 30s London he goes to Jersey to rob a hotel, is caught, and gets put in nick just as the Nazis invade. The Nazis discover this guy is an explosives expert, so they train him up and out on a mission to blow up a factory in England. In the end he becomes a double agent and goes back to Germany, dining at the top table with the Nazis, and this is just a shitkicker from South London. I love books about that period. It was only 50, 60 years ago that there was a proper war on".
[Noel, it wasn't 50 years ago, but at least almost 70]. Nazi period even in Noel's favourite films.

"Life" - Keith Richards

"I never bought into the myth of Keith Richards. All right, he's done a bit of gear and written a few tunes. That's what we do, we're fucking rock stars. But I've got to say, after reading this, what an absolute dude. His take on music is incredible. How he's got all his faculties together to remember half the shit is beyond me but he went right up in my estimations. I don't like the way he's always having a go at Mick Jagger though. People do have a pop at Jagger and I don't know why, because he's great. Look at the words to 'Sympathy For The Devil'. That is heavy shit".

"One minute to midnight" - Michael Dobbs

"This is an hour-by-hour account of the 48 hours leading up to the Cuban Missile Crisis, and it's staggering. At midnight, nuclear war was going to start. Kennedy woke up the next morning and realised that there were good people on the Russian side as well. The army were pushing Kennedy towards war, and likewise with Khrushchev, and it very nearly happened".

"Shakey" - Jimmy McDonough

"There's a quote in it that changed my life, he's asked why he's been in Buffalo Springfield, Crazy Horse and all these other bands and he replies, "No one band is big enough to hold what I've got." At the time of reading it, I felt like that. In the last few years of Oasis I was only writing half the album, so I put out 15 songs in 10 years. I must have written 60 a year. I kept going back to that quote. Here's this guy that does whatever he wants. No one will ever be like Neil Young.

My top 5 books, briefly:

"Look back in anger" - John Osborne

One from theatre. I wrote a post about this. Full of unforgettable quotes, also about myself :)

"The picture of Dorian Gray" - Oscar Wilde

This one too, full of unforgettable quotes. Also, reminds me of myself "staying young" :).

I like the classics, I would have hundreds to add, also from the theatre of Shakespeare, or "The betrothed" (I promessi sposi), the main Italian love story from Milan and the North of Italy, a story that is in our culture. Very complicated and long book.

I had read them mainly because of school, so when you must read a book, usually you don't like it. It's not as when you read for pleasure.

"The Da Vinci Code" - Dan Brown

Ok many people don't like it, they can say what they want but I really appreciated it. Even if they say there are some wrong, invented things, it's interesting and involving. The evening I finished to read this book, the Pope died.
There are many sarcastic quotes against the french :).
Even Noel read it, a few years ago said he read only 2 "normal" books in his life, by Dan Brown, and the rest about music.

"Nelson, the man who defeated Napoleon" - Terry Coleman

One about my favourite character in history, the English hero. Although suffering from seasickness, he defeated my least favourite character in history, the french thief and criminal. Who also stole so much art especially in the North of Italy.

I chose history, but I'd like to add something from philosophy, by Schopenhauer.

"Getting high: the adventures of Oasis" - Paolo Hewitt

I wrote a post about this. One about music, and it must be this funny one by Paolo of Italian origins.

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MILAN - As Liam said we should do, I see many people are comparing and taking sides in the Liam vs Noel Gallagher war, it's gonna get worse in the next months... "your eyes are telling lies (dear Noel), so much storm is on the way, but it's so nice" (guess which Oasis song is :) ...it's not by Noel...
All the people close to the situation (including their brother Paul, who was there, I even include myself, 'cause I live for Oasis :) are calling bullshit on Noel's sordid tales. He's a liar.

Votes from 0 to 10, where 5 is "not enough".

MUSIC

Liam
The songs he wrote for Oasis are underrated, I love them (I'm outta time, Boy with the blues, Pass me down the wine, etc.)
He was the first one to venture out, creating the new band Beady Eye. The album was well received by critics, and even the worst review said they have something new.
Liam said that a second album will be released in 2012. Meanwhile the band published really good b-sides & covers. They’re “democratic”, every member writes something, and their songs rock. They're doing it.

Vote: 8

Noel
Conversely, Noel typically has been largely inactive (but now he’s speaking too much and saying bullshit) and has only just released a song. But the music is from his own The importance of being idle (that was not really “pure” itself), easy lyrics, also from the Lovin’ Spoonful, name of the band and album from Jefferson Airplane. His “theres-only-God-Jesus-Genius-Noel” fans are impressed, but then you find out they’re 20 years old or even less, so during the 2004 era song where Noel took the single from, they were 13 and probably not listening. Not really impressive for a fan since 1994.
He said he’s releasing another album in 2012 as Liam, but said that both of his albums are not rock music.
More than “democratic”, he’s egocentric. And he didn’t realise it’s years that some of his new songs are on the internet.
Overrated, disappointing.

Vote: (so far) 4

STYLE

Liam
He admitted to have no fashion knowledges but his fashion brand, beginning March 2009 in Milan and officially on my birthday :), won the Menswear of the Year Award after just one year, in 2010. The clothes he wears are always the top. Since the beginning of Oasis, the people imitate his style and hairdos.
Noel: "The thing about Liam and his hairdos is when he gets a new one you think 'That looks absolutely rubbish' then six weeks later everyone on Oxford Street has got one."

Vote: 9

Noel
If Liam has no fashion knowledges, Noel has no fashion sense at all, sometimes he comes out with terrible jackets or shoes and he even said something like "fashion is for gays" (!)
Liam on Noel's sense of style: "Noel's got an old man vibe going on, our kid. Big woolly jumpers and cardigans... Terry Wogan, Val Doonican shit."

Vote: 3

FOOTBALL

Liam
He surprisingly knows much about football. He likes Balotelli a lot, attended the semi-final won vs Manchester United and the FA Cup final won. There are photos of him with the Cup in a Pretty Green shop. With Beady Eye he recently published Manchester City anthem Blue Moon, and then wearing the new shirt.

Vote: 9

Noel
He often spoke about football on TalkSport radio, and it seems he knows more than Liam, but maybe just because he speaks more, and sometimes says some bullshit. He attended the semi-final vs Man Utd as Liam, but not the final. Big mistake.
He supported the “Back the bid, England 2018” but England lost. Unlucky bugger.
He had to write a song for the World Cup and one for Man City, and to be at City celebrations. Nothing.
Liam about him: he's a poor City fan.

Vote: 5

QUOTESThese brothers are no shrinking violets and have been known to have an opinion or two eh. There are whole books just on the controversial things they have said about everything, They’re often very funny, we've decided to choose only some for each brother in history.
Tabloids and everybody say it’s Liam the Bad but the one often exaggerating is Noel, as when he wished Blur to die from Aids or that Oasis were bigger than Jesus (and Liam always said about things as these: it's Noel saying this shit... 'cause people always accused Liam of saying those).

Liam
about Coldplay and Radiohead: “I don't hate them, I don't wish they had accidents. I think their fans are boring and ugly and don't look like they're having a good time.”
"Chris Martin looks like a geography teacher. What's all that with writing messages about Free Trade? If he wants to write things down I'll give him a pen and a pad of paper. Bunch of students."

Speaking at the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs): "Alright, this party's shit and we're here to liven things up a bit. You know you're not havin' a good time but you're all too scared to say it, ya know mate."

On Twitter after Peter Kay called him a knobhead at the final Brit Awards: "Listen up fat fuck as a real northerner I was brought up 2 say shit 2 people's faces not behind their back. Live forever LG."

On being a sex symbol: “I'm into the girls fancying me, mad for it. Get a bit worried if boys started fancying me. I've got nothing against gays - as long as they don't pinch me on the bum or whatever."

"Birds are all right. They're all pink on the inside. Any bird who's fit is all right, unless she's nicked or ugly and she speaks back to you. If she thinks I'm boss, then thumbs up. Chicks in Japan don't even ask your name, just 'Can I sleep with you tonight?' 'Certainly, my dear'. I like American birds till they open their mouths. Then they annoy me, but if they're fit, they're fit."

"Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it."

On going out to gigs: “Fuck that. What’s the point? The bands are all shit, aren’t they? Go out to socialise and have some student stand on your fucking shoes?”

"I live for now, not for what happens after I die. If I die and there's something afterwards, I'm going to hell, not heaven. I mean, the devil's got all the good gear. What's God got?"

“always wear 3 condoms: 2 for your cock, 1 for your head”.

"I don't see how the tabloids could get any worse for me unless they claimed I'd had anal sex with an alien. 'Liam Gallagher was caught last night bending an alien across a pool table and poking his bottom.' What more can they say about me?"

"John Lennon would probably hate us, then again who gives a fuck? He's a Scouser."

"I really despise this new fucking disease of indie fucking shit, fucking student music, the likes of Bloc Party and all that fucking nonsense. They don't keep me awake at night, but it's just shite, and they can fucking have it mate.
The thing is, man, you can make your clothes look like they've been worn in and look as if they've had a bit of character, but underneath you've got to have a fucking wash. Those fuckers wear the clothes all the fucking time and they don't wash, so it's like, 'Where's the fucking bench?'
I've heard plenty of bands that can write a decent enough tune then you see them and I go, 'Thank fuck - they look like shit.' If you look good and you've got the tunes, you're away man."

The “fucking women” (as he calls them :). “We said it from Day One, we were the ones who were real, man. We’re just honest, man, and we’re not a bunch of women.”

"Nice jacket" (embracing me :) and the quotes praising the Milan crowd "the best one".

Vote: 8

Noel
He ignited a feud between Oasis and Blur when he told The Observer that he wanted Blur members Damon Albarn and Alex James to ‘catch AIDS and die’.

He famously nicknamed Robbie Williams the “fat dancer” of Take That.

Among his best quotes, those praising Milan (time ago...) and the Italians, plus about politics: against the environmentalist Greens "fucking hippies" and kidding them, the "fuck me them communists", "fuck Wenger and his socialist football", "a good politician is a rich one", "more police on the streets", etc.

"I could put my professional hat on and I could say that it's really important to come and play for these people for the social aspect of Rock in Rio. Or I could be honest and say it's really fucking cold in England and it's really warm here."

"I'm not sure about this Live8 thing. Correct me if I am wrong, but are they hoping that one of these guys from the G8 is on a quick 15-minute break at Gleneagles and sees Annie Lennox singing 'Sweet Dreams' and thinks, 'Fuck me, she might have a point there, you know.' It's not going to fucking happen, is it?"

"Liam, of course, who is like a woman who's on a fucking permanent menstrual cycle all the time about everything, he's either way up in the clouds or way down in the gutter."

To U2: "sing One, shut the fuck up about Africa."

To Liam: "If you're proud of getting thrown off ferries why don't you go and support West Ham and the fuck out of my band and go and be a football hooligan. We're musicians, right."

On Oasis live: “This is rock 'n' roll, not a charity handout. I don’t care who you are, why you’re here, what you expect. If you buy the ticket then you’re going to get the show we put on. And if you don’t like it, you know what you can do.”
And now that you’re not rock’n’roll anymore?

On Kaiser Chiefs 'being wankers': “Well, they are, though. The worst thing about them is that they’re not very good. They play dress-up and sit on top of an apex of meaninglessness. They don’t mean anything to anybody apart from their fucking ugly girlfriends.”

“I still tell people that the Be Here Now album is the best advertisement against taking cocaine. It goes on too long, it's smothered by its self of self-importance - the same as coke users are.”

Reacting to the news that Jay-Z was going to headline Glastonbury 2008, he said: 'I'm sorry, but Jay-Z? No chance. I'm not having hip-hop at Glastonbury. It's wrong.'

“I wouldn’t go out and buy a Bloc Party record ’cos I know it would be shit.”

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MILAN - AC Milan secretly reached an agreement for Cesc Fabregas, official in a few days. Kakà a week later. Balotelli maybe. Man City: Aguero official, Nasri in a few days. Cesc we can.

Noel Gallagher sings in falsetto... a word recalling the lies he tells. Falsetto is a bit gay, isn't it, lol. Beady Eye have the balls: win a Manchester City shirt by Umbro signed by Liam: click here and spot the ball.

Not only has Noel Jesus Gallagher the "Godlike fucking genius" copied the name of his band & album "High Flying Birds" from a Jefferson Airplane song. Not only the music of his "new" single is almost a cover of The importance of being idle. The lyrics of The Death of You and Me are a bit similar to Summer in the City by the Lovin' Spoonful. Usual little bitch.

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PARIS - Some days ago you have read my post about the "curse of 21 August" (same 1997 Be Here Now day). On 21 August I'm not buying Noel's boring single but Beady Eye Special Edition: album+dvd with the live from Paris and official videos of the singles

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3 songs, two from Beady Eye's Record Store Day live. Nutella, Mario Balotelli, Saint Mark church (the first name of Manchester City), Pretty Green and much more. Maybe it's the end of Mario @ City, England would miss him

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LONDON - It's your new album. Noel Gallagher has vowed to join the digital age and learn about modern technology after discovering fans were finishing his half-written songs and posting them online.
The ex Oasis star likes to work on ideas for new tracks during concert soundchecks, and he had no idea onlookers were secretly recording him.
He later found out the bootleg tapes of his embryonic songs had been posted on YouTube - and was stunned to see fans had been completing the tracks for him.
Gallagher tells Mojo magazine, "Some were written on the last (Oasis) tour, when I used to feel them out by getting my acoustic guitar and strumming them after soundcheck, because you sound like Jesus in a big arena [why not God eh?]. A year later someone comes up to me and says: 'Have you got a song called If I Had A Gun?'. (I said) 'Yes... why?' There wasn't even a demo of this.
"Turns out some kids have been taping the soundchecks on mobile phones and posting them up on the internet. I haven't got a computer and I'm completely oblivious to it all, so I check it out and there are kids on YouTube finishing them off! I'm thinking, 'They're covering my songs before I've written them?' I need to keep an eye on this shit."
Talking about embracing t'internet, he said of his new iPad: "I'm now forced to use words and terms I never even knew existed like 'pop up server' and 'RAM' and fucking 'user' this and 'password' that. I've never had to come up with AND REMEMBER so many passwords!
"It's like some super spy shit in WW2, and who decided where to put all the bastard letters on the keypad? Nonsense."

What an idiot. More bullshit from Noel the liar: he said Liam left creepy messages on Sara's and his phone hahaha wish it was true, that's what he deserved. As when "Liam stole things at home"...please.
It must have been some of his fans idolising him till death (of you and me), "Godlike Genius Jesus Noel" and such rubbish.
He added that the best song on the album is The Death Of You And Me... it's gonna be a shite album. I hate that man.
Oh and he said that he took the name of the new band "High Flying Birds" from a Jefferson Airplane song... oh this is new, Noel Gallagher copying something, what a godlike genius.

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GORGONZOLA - ...and here is a better version of my previous video, with the original instrumental and cowboy Liam. As in the film, when the music is over...fire!
Noel said Liam is as bad as anyone else in the world. Tabloids and everybody think the Bad is Liam and the Good is Noel. Not really... Liam acts as the bad one to "protect" himself, you know what I mean, 'cause he's the good one... Noel is deeply bad.

If you met Noel, you probably noticed that he's not kind with fans, while Liam is so nice and accepts everything. Next mission in August: giving him his favourite "Zola" Gorgonzola cheese from Milan as gift. As it stinks, we'll probably have some cats following us ^_^

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HOLLYWOOD MILANO :) - Do you remember the 1995 (Oasis top era) book (then film) by Nick Hornby, "High fidelity", with the characters always picking their "5 favourites".
Noel picked the 5 cinematic experiences that blew his mind, and then books and music that define the man (I will post more about a series of top 5).
Books?! wasn't he proud to be "ignorant" and to have read only 2 books (by Dan Brown) in his life? (plus many music books).
Noel "God" Gallagher said once again that he "HONESTLY hasn't heard Beady Eye"... so don't speak about the songs please but look at your "new" single from the 2004 era. Yeah that song, so boring just after 1 day.
These are the films, and the reason Noel picked them.

"The good the bad and the ugly" (1966, the film that Oasis were watching on the first album Definitely Maybe, spaghetti western by Sergio Leone, music by Ennio Morricone, inspiring melodies to Noel, especially in the "2004 era"... and today)

"There's a great scene when Clint Eastwood's character leaves Tuco (Eli Wallach), the little guy to die in the desert. Tuco gets a gun and follows him through the desert, picking up his cigar stubs to keep track. It's epic, brilliantly written, the story is great, and they all end up in a graveyard in a three-way shoot off. It looks good as well, Clint Eastwood wears three outfits in the entire film and I'd were them all. I'd save the poncho for Glastonbury".

video I made with an orchestra playing Masterplan and images from the film.

"All we know is that we don't know how its gonna be" :)

The 2nd part of the central part is too joyful. The tension, the rest is ok. I'll try again :), using the original instrumental

Pulp fiction (1994)

"There are so many great moments of great dialogue in that film. The sign of great art is what happens afterwards, and this film changed everything. Even the black suit and the black tie look came back in, and before that only waiters wore it. The beginning is the end, but you don't realise at first".

Star wars (1977)

"Not the silly edition with the fucking dinosaurs in it, the original. I was ten when this came out, and I still believe that galaxy is going on somewhere, a long, long time ago and far, far away. And even now it looks state of the art. You know it's a big guy from Cornwall in a furry gorilla suit, but it doesn't really matter. It deals with the most basic premise of good vs evil and someone got to rescue the girl, but you've got to admire someone with the vision to invent an entire language. It blew my mind, and I can't wait for it to blow my son's mind. Then I'll be able to say to him "wait until you find out who his Luke Skywalker's Dad is". That will bend his head. Fuck Blade Runner. Blade Runner is Radiohead. Star Wars is Oasis."

The Rutles: all you need is cash (1978)

You can't go on tour without The Rutles. The Beatles story is fantastic because Neil Innes took the piss out of it. It's the British Spinal Tap, and the songs Ouch! I Must Be In Love, Cheese And Onions - are all fucking great".

Downfall (2004)

"This is the story of the last days of Hilter, and I love the black nihilism of it all. They're all staying to the bitter end, and it is the end of their world. We've been in the end of relationships, the end of tours, and the end of bands. But they know this is the end of their entire way of life and they're all going to die. They are dead. Best of all is the YouTube parody in which Hitler's going mad because Oasis have split up and he had tickets to the concert."

I'm not a huge fan of cinema, but here are my top 5 films (I've already wrote some posts about almost all of them)

1) I'd pick everything by Hitchcock. So many, but if I have to choose one, let's say Rear window

2) Quadrophenia

3) Blow up (by Michelangelo Antonioni)

4) Zabriskie Point (by Antonioni)

5) As fifth... difficult, so I choose 5 other films :). I'd pick Pulp Fiction as Noel, but he chose that, so I don't :).

Cast away, La dolce vita (by Federico Fellini), Fight Club, Almost famous... or maybe some spaghetti western. I also like very much Contact and that funny Coming to America.

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LOS ANGELES - Back from the USA, some City players are against Mario and so Mancini gave him his car (with driver, Mancini wouldn't let him drive :) to separate Mario from the team on the bus. The transfer to AC Milan is closer.

David Beckham has told Manchester City bad boy Mario Balotelli: Just stick the ball in the net from now on.
Balotelli, 20, was hauled off by boss Roberto Mancini after stunning his team-mates with his showboating antics during a pre-season friendly against LA Galaxy.
The controversial Italian was off target with an outrageous back-heel after racing clean through on goal.
His elaborate strike enraged Mancini and Balotelli's claim that he believed he was offside fell on deaf ears with his manager.
Beckham has sympathy for the young stiker but insists he would be wise to tuck the ball away no matter what in the future.
Galaxy midfielder Becks said: "I've watched it back and, from his mannerisms, I believe he thought he was offside.
"In defence of Mario, I genuinely believe he thought it was offside. But it doesn't matter whether you think it was offside or not.
"There are a lot of young kids watching these teams and great players who come out here.
"You have to be professional and score the goal, regardless of whether or not it counts.

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SAINT COLUMBAN-UPON-LAMBRO - The dawn this morning at 6:10am. Enough of people blind-idolising Noel around. In an old room we found some radios of my gradma from the '50s. Appropriate for Beady Eye's Bring the light '50s piano sound

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LOS ANGELES - It's never boring with them: I totally love characters as Liam Gallagher and Mario Balotelli, they're quite similar (they don't give a shit, lol) and all the people are SO JEALOUS about them. It's their victory. Just read the comments around the websites, full of insults. And it's always said they still have to grow up (stay young and invincible!!), but I think it's someone else who needs to grow up, tabloids telling lies and people insulting. They're biased so whatever Mario does, it's wrong.

I noticed the American press defended Mario, good. He clearly thought to be in offside and his gesture clearly wasn't to kid the people. Besides, it was just a friendly match. But for the tabloids it's so much better to build a scandal. If it was that idiot called Cristiano Ronaldo doing that, everybody would have gone: oh he tried a magic trick!

But, the argument Mario had with Mancini, makes him closer to a transfer to his favourite team AC Milan.

It took just a few seconds for Mario Balotelli's latest bizarre act to go viral. He swiftly trended on Twitter as links to the now-famous video clip peppered timelines across the globe. I duly clicked, watched, chortled. Then Tweeted on it myself. But when the dust had settled, though, there appeared to be quite the animosity towards the Manchester City striker for his actions. Why?
In a friendly match against LA Galaxy on Sunday, Balotelli, signed from Inter Milan for £24 million last summer, found himself clean through on goal, his side leading 1-0 after he had scored from the penalty spot. But, instead of putting his laces through the chance, he opted for an audacious pirouette, before backheeling the ball a few yards wide of the target. His team-mate, Edin Dzeko, who lurked just to his right, threw his arms up in disgust; City boss Roberto Mancini, meanwhile, got angry.
A bronzed Mancini pointed immediately in Balotelli's direction before waving a left hand at substitute James Milner. Minutes later, Balotelli trudged off, Milner replacing him. A verbal exchange then took place between Mancini and his Italian compatriot, with the latter seemingly indicating that he thought he was offside, hence the languid skill. Then, petulantly, he turned his back on his coach, strutting towards the bench whilst uttering under his breath. Mancini half-heartedly stalked him. A textbook throwing of a bottle then followed by Balotelli.
I am not defending 20-year-old Balotelli's reaction, he behaved like a brat and such a strop sends a poor message to the children watching. But doesn't Mancini, who worked with the attacker at Inter, know Balotelli well enough to anticipate he would have responded in such a way to being hooked? It may have got Mancini's goat, but why not wait until the interval to replace him, therefore quelling the media furore that would inevitably follow? Instead of talking about Uruguay's Copa America final win - a record-breaking 15th South American title - the footballing masses were chatting all things 'Super Mario' on Sunday evening. Then, of course, Mancini's press conference was dominated by it.
Speaking after the game, which City eventually won 7-6 on penalties following a 1-1 draw in normal time, Mancini said: "I hope this is a lesson for him. In football you always need to be professional, always serious and in this moment he wasn't professional. If you are serious, you can play 90 minutes. If not, you can come and sit by me on the bench. Mario is young, I want to help him and that is the end of it. To take him off after 30 minutes is enough punishment. It won't have been easy for him but it has to be a lesson."
But serious is dull. Let us remember that City were criticised last season for at times being uninspiring. Ironing out this type of expression is not beneficial to the game, nor the supporter. Football needs its characters, and Balotelli is a mighty one. Petulance should be rid from football, but the dare to be daring must stay. The innovators, the characters, the expressive - they make football what it is: fun.
Imagine if the effort had gone in, then Mancini would have been in quite the pickle. One chap Tweeted: "It is certainly an insult that he tried it. Very disgraceful and distasteful. Good for Mancini taking him out." This I can't comprehend, yet it seems the majority view.
During a period when the lead story is usually some quotes from a player's agent telling us all the top clubs in the world want him, Balotelli's act was a comforting reminder of the sport's ability to entertain.
But the lasting concern from the incident is the message that hauling off of a player who attempted something different sends to youngsters. Punishment for experimentation produces a fear of failure. This has been England's problem for goodness knows how many years. If this was globally engrained we wouldn't have the Blanco 'bunny hop', Johan Cruyff's copyrighted turn or that daft seal dribble Kerlon does.
Ultimately, we should make consider whether his spin really was "disgraceful" or "insulting". He didn't flick a V-sign at the crowd, or spit in an opponent's face. He just did something a little bit different. And that is what Mario Balotelli is all about.

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mwahahahaha what the fuck is this?!?! ahahaha the album! ah! please! rubbish-colour. Horrible.
Noel Gallagher covering Oasis. I've just heard his new song (or if I was Noel the liar I would say: I didn't hear...and then I'd speak about it), people saying "better than the entire Beady Eye album"... this would be the WORST song on Beady Eye album. Noel Gallagher now copying himself, after having copied everybody. Too similar to "The importance of being idle". It's normal from one so full of himself. People-apostles of Jesus God Noel, always blinded, now maybe blinded by the girls on the video? Wankers.
They're forcing themelves to like it... Wow this is massive, huge, mega, class, been waiting years for it, gonna change the history of music... LOL JOKING. And, the cover image, the "artwork" (could it be called art?) is the ugliest I've ever seen in the history of music.
It's such a pity 'cause he was touching something we always liked: the legendary West, spaghetti western films by Sergio Leone, Ennio Morricone music, it was all on Oasis first album artwork as well, and inspiring him songs in 2004.
Not soaking but sucking. I'm not going to spend 1 quid for it. Oh and the egocentric "I'm watching my TV, or is it watching me?" weren't words but lyrics from the song... getting deep eh? Liam was the one unable to write songs eh... on the contrary this one looks like a childish text, easy rhymes. And the matter gets gloomy, I knew it.
I don't care if Liam will like it or not, I don't idolise as those fans do, I just dislike it.
Now do me a favour: listen to the song 1,000 times asNoel's fans are doing, so you'll get sick of it.
It won't be difficult, as the song is already boring as fuck.

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LOS ANGELES - He's always the protagonist. Scored the goal and then had to go out.

Furious Roberto Mancini hauled off Mario Balotelli for an outrageous bit of showboating.
The Italian bad boy had already put City ahead with a cheekily taken penalty.
But he then wasted an easy chance to double the visitors' lead, as he was sent clean through by David Silva on the half-hour.
Instead of applying a simple finish, he tried an extravagant pirouette and backheel and saw his weak effort dribble wide of a post.
It drew loud boos from the home crowd and clearly annoyed Mancini, who immediately told sub James Milner to take over.
The pair exchanged angry words when Balotelli made his way off, with the 20-year-old apparently claiming he thought he was offside.
Mancini said: "I hope this is a lesson for him
In football you always need to be professional, always serious, and he wasn't.
"He needs to understand his behaviour has to be good in every game, not just in a semi-final or final."
Overall, it suggests this could be another eventful season for the former Inter Milan star, who joined City for £23million last summer and regularly found himself in bother.
Yet early in the game he had looked in the mood to make some headlines of the right kind as City got off to a bright start.
Micah Richards was felled by Bryan Jordan in the box and Balotelli sent the keeper the wrong way from the spot. Then he let himself down again, with local commentators suggesting he had lacked respect for Galaxy and the event.
David Beckham had been subbed by the time Galaxy levelled with a dipping volley from sub Mike Magee early in the second half.
England's goalkeeper Joe Hart saved two spot-kicks in the shoot-out to decide the match before blasting in the winner himself as City edged it 7-6.

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Oh and about the "Noel doesn't even know that Beady Eye singles are vinyls..." etc., I was ironic, he surely knows everything. He's just a smart liar, says he does't listen then he suddenly knows everything, etc. He feigned to be shocked and sorry about Beady Eye's "failure" (he's just happy) 'cause he wants to appear as a hero. And he blamed Liam, Andy, Pretty Green, everyone, even my cat. While on the contrary Liam took his part of blame. Not to say that I'm a liar 'cause I'm Gemini (and Liam is a terrible Virgo, could be much worse), but Noel is Gemini too and he's got a sort of double personality...

I'm shocked when I read around the typical Noel's fans (who don't seem to know much about him, they're just "blinded by what the idolise"...) writing nonsense as: "beady eye ROCKING?????? for god sake.... liam is a brainless monkey. like you. The guy its almost 40 !!!!!!!!! need to grown up NOW.. OASIS IS DEAD monkey boy"... even in anonymous comments when they don't know anything of the other people speaking, so the "like you", "monkey boy", etc. make even less sense.

You're clearly 100% jealous. Noel said he's not doing rock. Just accept it. Hard to accept it for people thinking he's God, the voice, the brains, the everything.

The guy "its" 44 !!!!!!!!! HE's the one who needs to grow up NOW, 'cause lies are told by children.
Oasis are Beady Eye, brainless monkey.

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GRAZZANO VISCONTI - A medieval town "standing the test of time" :). Another "40 minute ride, you drive it and I spend it looking out my window", "standing at the deep blue sky, and you say the driver, just drive" :). At 0:55 the same pattern & colours of "Three ring circus" :), "incantesimi" means "magic spells" and the Italian flag worn by Liam @ Milan gig, "like an Italian lover", lol. The village is called Grazzano Visconti (with a castle), the "food's the bollocks" :). The river is Po, the longest in Italy.

The photo with UK-Sweden-Belgium-Italy flags is outside a new swimming pool here (they're thermal baths, a spa). Stop @ Great Britain :). On the other side there are Germany-france lol-Spain-Holland flags

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LONDON - Photo: Andy Bell (Noel would say: Fucking Bell, lol) with his new partner. Looks like lake Como eh? :)
Here's more bullshit from the liar, accusing everyone and everything, Pretty Green, Liam, Andy, not himself, of course. Honest people sometimes blame themselves even when they're not guilty... Liam took his part of blame.
I bet that if Andy said something and put himself among the brothers, he would have been told to mind his own business, so he's always wrong, according to Noel.
Noel Gallagher has taken aim at his former Oasis bandmate Andy Bell, accusing him of failing to intervene in the backstage bust-up that ended the group.
The Wonderwall hitmakers split in 2009 after Gallagher and his singer brother Liam had a furious argument minutes before taking the stage at a gig in Paris, france.
Earlier this month, guitarist Noel spoke out to blame Liam for the feud, insisting he sparked the bust-up by asking to advertise his fashion line Pretty Green in Oasis tour programmes.
Noel has now rounded on bassist Bell and accused him of sitting silently as the argument with his brother spiralled out of control.
He tells Nme magazine, "Well, he sat in the fucking room in Paris that night, didn't say a fucking word. I was like, 'You know what? I haven't got time for people like that.' I've got nothing against him, he's a fucking lovely guy, and great to be in a band with, but really, when it came down to it, he didn't chirp up.
"I'm like, 'Fucking hell, you sit there saying nothing while the band implodes around you.' But good luck to 'em all, you know? Seriously. Good luck to 'em."
We "don't believe the truth" anymore.

Noel Gallagher is not unfamiliar with The Royle Family - his classic track Half The World Away was the soundtrack to the hit show.
But the ex-Oasis star has been brushing shoulders with genuine blue blood - the king of Tonga.
Noel was staying in the plush W Hotel in Los Angeles while working on his debut solo album, High Flying Birds, with producer Dave Sardy.
Only two people were staying on his floor in the five-star gaff - him and King George Tupou V.
A source said: "Noel was baffled by men in suits with ear pieces keeping an eye on things along his corridor.
"It was only later in the trip that he realised what was going on when room service was taking so long to arrive.
"It turned out it was being checked out before arriving at his door. He was laughing with the lads in the studio about it being like a scene from Coming To America in the room next door."
It's just as well Noel was out there working. You wouldn't want to accidentally stumble into the wrong door and have a Tongan heavy jump on you after a night on the ale.
And Big George isn't to be messed with - he's a bright man with military training.
The king studied at both Cambridge and Oxford Universities. He also had a spell at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Surrey.
Tonga is made up of 176 islands in the South Pacific. The king should have offered Noel a week's holiday on one for an early listen to the new album.

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GRÄFENHAINICHEN - Liam singing good. Listen to Sons of the Stage, great ending. Download part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4 . Usual rules: selling is forbidden.

I've heard Noel's fans saying that Beady Eye are shite and they "don't rock"... ah! jealous as fuck. It's because Noel said he's not doing rock in the new albums, so they're having inferiority complexes.

And if you look around internet, all the websites, also non-Oasis, support Noel in a ridiculous way, as if (only) what he says is Gospel. It's clear that people who only see "God Noel" and attack Liam, they're jealous and stuck in an old idea where Noel does everything, which is unreal.

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LONDON - Does Noel Gallagher know something called "vinyl"? He doesn't even know that Beady Eye singles don't exist, they are vinyl discs (if you find a Beady Eye single on cd, you could be quite rich... 'cause there isn't). The first ones were even "limited edition" vinyls. And I noticed almost nobody has an LP player (I have). Only collectors buy them. So of course they reach chart positions as the 30th for The Roller. A mistake made by many websites talking shit about Beady Eye. The people listen to Beady Eye through internet (Noel doesn't want), and bought enough albums: 3rd in UK (Adele was quite impossible to beat, for a new band as Liam's), 1st in Japan, and for a short period they had their album 1st in the world chart ('cause in countries as in South America they're very popular).
"I thought it would do what Oasis singles do." ...Oasis singles were on cd, you fucking ignorant (he's proud to be ignorant, so it's not an offence). I hate him now, he must have a great album or I'll hate him even more.
Then, who says that if a song is at the top of the charts, it's great music? I know a lot of rubbish that was 1st.
I think as Liam: Noel does everything on purpose, he says he's sorry (of course he's not) about Beady Eye "failure", and so it will be difficult for him (of course it won't be). If you don't want to call him "liar", "smart as a fox" could be appropriate. But we're not stupid...

I was ironic, he surely knows everything. He's just a liar, says he does't listen then he suddenly knows everything.
More bullshit from Noel: his "a born liar" even appears on the official site! what a style. Oh but Noel is the kind one eh, not arrogant at all, according to his there-is-only-God-Noel fans. He accused Liam of filling Beady Eye's album with leftover Oasis songs. Right, on the contrary Noel uses discarded Oasis songs of 10 years ago.

A few days ago Noel said that he didn't listen to Beady Eye, now he suddenly knows everything about every song... who's the liar?

Now Noel "goes cinematic"...perfect, I hate cinema, lol. He confirmed the release of the single on August 21st... I even hate that day, lol, because it reminds me of 21 August 1997, when the controversial Be Here Now came out - there was a big sign "21 August" and the single Stand By Me was going to be published with Going Nowhere (on a train) as one of the b-sides, naming Jaguar car - and 21 August 1997 was the last day I saw, taking a train, my first girlfriend, that blonde one with an English Jaguar, going: "when a new band comes out, you'll forget Oasis"...sure (all coincidences of life :). Now release of High Flying Birds first ever single - The Death Of You And Me ... sorry but we already have more than one "song of the summer", by Beady Eye.
1997 was the summer of Stay Young, now there's another happy tune, Bubblez :).
You know about the curses of Oasis albums images and how they ended, maybe this 21 August is the end of this curse?

trailer, spaghetti western
Noel: "the saying is that if you don't leave a place it will be the death of you. The song is about people escaping the surroundings they are in, it's not about me and Liam."

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MANCHESTER - With the song by Beady Eye and Liam Gallagher @ City stadium. It's starting to feel like Blue Moon on here, but here's another story about Manchester City.
The club has teamed up with the sports video game company, Electronic Arts Inc., as its new partner.
The deal was announced at EA’s campus in British Columbia as part of City’s summer tour activity in Canada and is unprecedented in both its scale and scope within the computer game industry.
As part of the agreement, dedicated MCFC virtual content will be distributed through the club and EA SPORTS’ digital channels, including MCFC match simulations prior to the fixtures and unique visuals of the City stars in action.
For the first time in the studio's history, it has created a virtual kit launch which means supporters can now watch the team play in the new home kit and score a goal for the very first time this season.
The video, which is currently one of the first FIFA 12 gameplay edits available, was designed especially for City , showcasing the club’s stars and plugging the UK release of FIFA12, which happens on the 30th September 2011.
EA SPORTS will also be investing in dedicated experiential gaming areas, in around the Etihad Stadium, City Square and the family zone within the concourse.
Nick Harford, football business lead at EA SPORTS, said: “We are delighted to be entering into a dynamic new partnership with Manchester City. Through this agreement, EA SPORTS will invest in the creation of bespoke content and experiences that bring Manchester City fans across the globe closer to the team they love.”

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LONDON - Also the single's cover image leaked (can you see the Hollywood stars?).

More about the bullshit said by the "overrated shitbag making music for retired people sleeping with their ex wives". I didn't even want to post anything about him. New NME, Noel: "Liam is a born liar, whatever he says is bullshit...". "Noel Gallagher expresses his surprise at Beady Eye’s lack of genuine success"... ah! said by one who's got HALF of the fans! Beady Eye: 152,000 Facebook fans in a few months. Noel: 87,000 in years. Says a lot. "I won't give free music, and that's an end of it". Yes, welcome to internet: it will leak in a few weeks and that's an end of it. When his sad non-rock albums will leak, I post them everywhere. Now 4 "new" songs out of 10.. I'll post them regularly around, so by October the people will get sick of them :). Boycott Noel Gallaga, Liam the only legend.

Fansites have been posting artwork for the track, which will apparently feature 'The Good Rebel' as its b-side.

"People kept coming to the gigs, but stopped listening [to Oasis... why.. are they listening to Beady Eye now?]. It's like if I was sat here today, doing a press conference for a new Oasis album... well I wouldn't be doing a press conference, would I. It'd be like, 'Oh Oasis have a new album out, so what,' That's just the way it is when you go on for so long. Does anyone care for a new Rolling Stones album? They go and see 'em, don't they."

Did anyone stop listening to Oasis? Nobody. I do always listen to Oasis. And, Beady Eye are Oasis.

Noel Gallagher doesn't think he will play at the same size venues as a solo artist, as he did with Oasis. Of course, you've got half the fans of Beady Eye and would you play stadiums?
"I don't see me ever being able to stand on stage in a stadium, like a jobbing fucking minstrel with an acoustic guitar, and pull it off in a hour and a half. I just don't I've got that in me. Band's have got more power than fucking jobbing songwriters. Who was the last solo artist to play Wembley Stadium? George Michael.
I don't ever see me playing stadiums. I don't think the demand will be there. I could probably do an arena in Manchester. Probably. But I don't know. I'm just going to see how it goes. it's a nice position to be in, and I've not been in this position since Definitely Maybe, where it's just like, 'Well put this album out, don't know what's going to happen.' Whereas in Oasis, you know what's going to happen. And that's great, but anything is possible and I'm not setting any limits on it. But I can safely say. it won't be anyway approaching being as big as Oasis were. Never".

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GLASGOW - The wife of legendary Scots music guru Alan McGee has swapped record labels for fashion labels by launching a clothing line with a kinky twist.
Former indie star Kate Holmes has created Client - named after her band of the same name - and runs the brand from the secluded mansion she shares with the former Creation records boss, in Hay-on-Wye, Wales.
The 40-year-old hopes women and men will get a kick out of the outfits - inspired by 1940s workwear - that have already won over the likes of underwear model Pixie Geldof and movie star Rhys Ifans.
It's clearly been a long-term passion - as some of the clothes look very similar to those she wore in Client during the 90s.
Describing the new line, she explained: "I am trying to bring workwear into playwear so that what you wear to work you can also wear out that evening. You can work in a bank and wear my Stalin Secretary office dress that is sexy despite looking quite straight.
"It has a little split in red and underneath you can wear your stockings and feel a little kinky at work. That is an area of clothing people have forgotten about. It is fetishistic in a normal way.
"I hope staff in banks wear my clothes, as well as people who work in galleries. It's not just aimed at trendies in London. Anybody can wear them up to size 16."
Kate and McGee fell in love in 1994, after he saw her band Frazier Chorus on TV and asked his label publicist to set up a blind date.
"When he came out of his rehab, he saw me on telly and asked if the press officer would sort out a blind date," Kate recalled."He took me to an art gallery, chatted about paintings and I thought, 'Oh my God. He's really interesting'. It was just after the first Oasis album, before they got big, and I thought Alan was really gentle and generous and fascinating."
The couple became inseparable and found themselves at the heart of a Britpop revolution deemed so influential that, in 1997, newly elected Prime Minister Tony Blair invited Kate and Alan for cocktails at 10 Downing Street.
"We went to the cocktail party at No10. It was really funny. I got so drunk on champagne because I don't drink very much," Kate admitted.
"I was in a band called Sirens at the time and I had this Groove Rider remix. I was trying to talk to Tony Blair about drum and bass music. He looked at me and I stuffed the CD in his hand [this one seems me with Liam lol - Marco]. I think he thought I was bonkers but was too polite to say, 'Get that woman out of my face'.
"I was so drunk, I ended up going to dinner with Damien Hirst and Keith Allen. It was mad. But we were on the periphery because Alan had been in rehab and couldn't go back into that."
Aware that she is following in the footsteps of Liam Gallagher, who has established his Pretty Green line of fashion, Kate said: "I can't compete with Liam. I am just a baby compared to him because he has his shops and everything.
"It is interesting that so many rock people are getting into clothes. Liam has done really well.
"For Oasis fans who like that look, the clothes are well made and Pretty Green is well marketed. I say to him, congratulations. But I don't move in the same circles as the Gallaghers.
"Noel is still in touch with Alan. They text each other."
Kate, who was wedded to Alan in 1998, added: "My clothes are all a bit vintage. It is what you would wear if you were Kraftwerk, but you were a woman.
"You might wear a dress called Madam Mao that from the front looks like something Chairman Mao would wear, but at the back there is a zip that goes right over your bum that I'm sure your boss would love to rip the zip down and bend you over the photocopier.
"The clothes have an edge to them but they aren't showing off your breasts or your bum because it is what you don't see that makes it sexy. I have a Remade line as well, which is vintage and sustainable "My favourite era in the world is the forties. I loved the clothes and everything. I have vintage nurse outfits that are beautiful - You could wear them to work."
Kate is determined to make sure all her clothes are of the highest quality. She has refused to have the outfits made in Chinese or East European sweat shops, opting instead for British manufacturers.
"I am just now launching properly after working on the Client fashion line for three years," she explained.
"The production has been a nightmare and I want to keep everything in Britain from now on. I have seen the factories in Shanghai with my own eyes, but I think we should make the clothes here where factories are competing hard with these places where a dress costs £2 and people are not being paid a decent wage. At least in Britain, it is not being made in a sweat shop."
She added: "People look at me and say I am bonkers to think about starting this during a recession but Alan started Creation during a recession. Alan was king of Britpop.
"He is retired and does what he wants. I admire him for that. He has an amazing legacy. But I have something to prove for myself. If I could sell them online and break even I'd be really happy because money from the band Client has gone straight back into it.
"Pixie Geldof likes the jackets and has the T-shirts. Rhys Ifans wore my jacket in Hollywood every day. I ask friends to wear it but it's hard as people like Pixie get given Dolce & Gabbana every day.
"But Alan has one style. He loves his Paul Smith coats and hats he gets from Piccadilly and his Gucci shoes. He buys shoes every three years. He is frugal with his clothes. He buys good quality and it lasts for ages."
Check out the Client line at clientlondon.com

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SAINT COLUMBAN-UPON-LAMBRO - Of course blue ice, and Pattie Boyd hat :). Proper country song for the countryside. Do you remember, the bubbles were in that video of mine inside the Football English pub when AC Milan was about to win the league. Gem: "The rolla is that friend who’s bulletproof and invincible, he can sort you out".

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MILAN - “San Siro stadium is magic, I fell in love with it. It seduced me, it’s massive and extraordinary”. Words of love said by the Spanish midfielder some time ago about the “Scala football theatre”.
Barcelona just bought Sanchez from Italian Udinese, they don't have so much money to spend now for other big players. Arsenal’s ridiculous french manager Wenger (the other day he got angry with Mancini ‘cause Roberto spoke about Nasri, he even said it’s forbidden in football rules!) he can't stand Barcelona, he argued (oh this is new) with them some time ago, he won't give them Fabregas. The mistake made by Barcelona was not speaking directly to Arsenal, that's what Milan is doing... If he moves, it'll be AC Milan. It would be quite a miracle by Milan chief Galliani, not only for the huge price (Milan would also give them back the french Flamini, too aggressive player) but also because Fabregas would like to join his former team Barcelona where he grew as a player. Manchester City's also interested. Of course he wants to go away from a team as Arsenal never winning anything. AC Milan and Arsenal have the sponsor Fly Emirates in common and this would help the transfer.

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BERN — From Heidi: rain turned to sunshine on the last afternoon of the Gurten Festival Sunday, as Liam Gallagher, Beady Eye’s hard-rocking front man, charged through songs from their new album.
Former Oasis frontman Gallagher and his band took advantage of the timely change in weather, lifting the packed crowd with Four Letter Word, Beatles and Stones then rattled off Millionaire and The Roller — their updates on classic British rock.
The audience sang along, and band camarderie was strong — drummer Chris Sharrock threw a drumstick high in the air, and caught it without missing a beat on Three Ring Circus, and similar antics from guitarists Gem Archer and Andy Bell — all former Oasis members — helped lift the crowd.
The brothers’ well-known antics and rivalry finally broke up the band, but at one time Oasis considered itself — and perhaps was — the biggest in the world.
But no one yelled for an Oasis’ song Sunday, and there was a sense in the crowd that maybe they were seeing the beginnings of another great British band.
“You’re beautiful!” Gallagher told an enthusiastic sea of faces, just before their last song in their hourlong set.
The four-day Gurten Festival, atop the hilltop of the Gurten overlooking the Swiss capital and the Bernese Alps, began Thursday and ended Sunday. A small train takes festival-goers up and down the hill, and attracts thousands of music lovers each year.
This year’s festival also featured the Arctic Monkeys, who played later Sunday, Jamiroquai, Kasabian and dozens of other popular bands. More about it soon. Beady Eye are now "on holidays" for 1 month, ready to come to Italy.

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CARDIFF - So he thinks the same as me, Alan McGee and Liam Gallagher :). Not Noel, eh eh. Some of the things in this interview here were already said, but it's always nice to read them.

With Brian I used to speak in Spanish language :), he was learning quite well.

With a back catalogue that stands up to anyone’s in the history of cover art and a roll call of bands including Oasis, the Super Furry Animals, The Verve, Suede and the Ruthless Rap Assassins, Brian Cannon the founder of legendary design label, Microdot Creative, is one of the finest creative minds of the past 20 years. He’s also a fucking riot.
Interviews can be a pain in the arse, but when I got the choice to either go to Noel Gallagher’s press conference last Wednesday and listen to entertainment journalists and tabloid hacks ask the same old questions, or interview Brian on the blower from Wigan, there was only one choice.
As a 16-year old kid in a shitty Shropshire town, Definitely Maybe kicked the stuffing out of me musically, it ended the dirge of grunge, sent lads everywhere to hairdressers and sports shops and spawned a thousand piss-poor bands under the Britpop moniker, so the chance to interview the bloke who conceptualised the iconic cover was not one to be missed.
Microdot, named after the lighter-flint looking version of LSD that some idiots used to put under their eyelids, is 21 this year and I talked to Brian fresh off a trip to Cardiff to work with various members of the Super Furry Animals who are doing solo projects. We spoke about his new career as a university lecturer, how he’d love to work with the Arctic Monkeys, how any kid with a Mac can now knock out a logo for £75 and why Beyonce was fucking amazing at Glastonbury. That, of course, and the Oasis juggernaut, Coldplay being shite, Noel’s solo projects and how he’s moving with the times…

Meeting Noel Gallagher…

It’s true, I met him because of a pair of trainers. When I graduated in 1988 I moved to London immediately, then I got into house music and was travelling back every Friday afternoon to Manchester to go to the Hacienda. So I thought ‘fuck it,’ if I was there all the time I may as well move there, so I moved back. The scene was just remarkable. So I got an office in an old cotton mill that had been broken up into little business units. Mine was £20 a week and had no windows in it, which is a bit of a drawback if you’re doing visual stuff, but it was cheap as chips. I didn’t have a computer, I had a photocopier and a drawing board and that was it. And I was doing the early Verve stuff, I’d seen this guy knocking around. You take it for granted now that everyone wears adidas and what have you but back then it was a rarity and mainly ex-football hooligans, or current football hooligans for that matter, I’d been into the football for a while and it was exclusive for that group of people.
I was in Rome on holiday with me Mum in 1991 or 92 and I bought these Adidas indoor supers. I’d seen this bloke knocking around the building, but you’d walk around and I’d clock him and he’d clock me, both too cool for school to say hello. Anyway one day I was in the lift and he gets in and I had the trainers on, which you couldn’t get in England. First thing he said to me was ‘where the fuck did you get those trainers from?’ And that’s how we got chatting. He asked me what I did, I told him, he said ‘who’ve you done?’ so I told him I’d done a couple of Verve singles by that point and he said ‘no way, I think they’re really good.’ Then as he got out of the lift he says ‘I’m in a band and when, not if, when we get signed I want you to do the artwork,’ and that were it and he was good to his word.

Seeing Oasis live for the first time…

The first time I saw Oasis, and I think I’ve seen them play something like 70 times, was at the Hop and Grape bar at Manchester Uni, probably holds about 300 people. Noel had been fucking mithering me to come and watch them but you know what it’s like, we’d become friends by this point and if a mate of yours plays in a band your like ‘they’re bound to be shit aren’t they?’ He was cool but I thought they’d be shit, all bands are shit except for a handful over the past 20 years or whatever, and I was worried about what I’d say if they were shit. But I went along and they were amazing. I was with Marcus Russell (manager) and Johnny Marr who Marcus had persuaded to come. It was super early on this and there was no looking back after that, I became the biggest walking advert for Oasis that you had ever seen, people thought I had gone mad. I was just ranting ‘this band are fucking brilliant they’ll be bigger than Led Zeppelin,’ and people were like ‘what the fuck are you going on about?’
The live show was like a fucking juggernaut coming into the room it were just ace. Before they showed their arses in public they were rehearsing 7 nights a week they really put a shift in. All of them are really nice blokes, Tony gets a hard time but I got on really well with him, all of the time we used to have a laugh, just constantly laughing. A lot of bands these days, and this really pisses me off, they’ve just been signed and they think the world owes them a living and they just turn into knobheads. You’ve got to remember that before Oasis Bonehead who was the eldest was a fucking plasterer. He knew how lucky he was, he woke up every morning and just went ‘Yesssss’ because he didn’t have to plaster walls anymore. They just knew it was a gifted situation they were in and they were gonna grab it with both hands. It was just an amazing phenomenon to be involved with.

Creating the Oasis logo…

The first meeting I ever had with them as a band took place backstage at a gig at Sheffield uni, I believe they were supporting the BMX Bandits! Fucking hell, the BMX Bandits supported by Oasis. Any road, like I said I never normally referred to other sleeves when I was doing a sleeve because you run the risk of becoming derivative or doing pastiches which I’m not about. But on this occasion, because it was the first time I’d met them and wasn’t sure what they were about, I took a load of books with me of classic album covers and classic rock photography and they liked a lot of the early Stones albums like Out of Our Heads. But more importantly they used to have the Decca logo on the front, and it hit me like a ton of bricks in the meeting that it would look ace with Oasis like that on it. Everyone knows it as the definitive Oasis logo and it started to go all downhill when they changed it.

The Definitely Maybe cover…

I don’t remember much about the conversation for Definitely Maybe, we decided it was going to be a band shot and did it at Bonehead’s house. I saw on some website recently that some idiot in some debate about Oasis’ artwork said ‘I hate that cover’ and my first thought was ‘nobhead’ because it’s ace, it’s like someone saying that they don’t like The Beatles, get a fucking grip mate. So I asked him why, and he said ‘it’s so aspirational.’ Which it isn’t, the inference was that these guys were shitkickers from Manchester and they all live in slums and they’ve had their picture taken in this posh flat. That was offensive in the extreme. The idea was that it wasn’t posed but it was, we spent weeks before the shoot with me sitting in every position and being photographed to build up a composition.

On getting The Verve to use Oasis as a support band in 1994…

It was my idea, you can fucking print this, it was all down to me, this is rock and roll history. You’ve heard of the famous Oasis swirl cassette, there’s only ten in existence, the last one went for £2500 on ebay. Noel gave me one but I can’t find the cassette, but I suppose the box would be worth a fair bit. On that Verve tour I drove round in a Renault 5 playing the cassette to David Haliwell the Verve’s manager. And he said this is amazing, and I told Richard that he needed to have them supporting and I introduced them. That tour was something else, no separate dressing rooms, we all just mucked in. They played one in Edinburgh and the power went and the crowd was getting restless and Bonehead went out and played the spoons singing she’ll be coming round the mountain.

The Rock And Roll Lifestyle…

Do you know what, I say this a lot. There’s some things I can’t reveal and wouldn’t. There’s a cracking story about Noel at a fancy dress party at Ronnie Wood’s house, I can’t tell you the rest, not that Noel would give a shit but… fucking hell. We were all so normal and down to earth and what we got up to was no different than what you and your mates got up to. There was a lot of boozing, a lot of cocaine knocking about and a lot of laughing. It was just a fucking piss up, just having a laugh, they were that open about it that there aren’t really any hidden stories, we took drugs, so fucking what. Noel said it all when he said it was as normal as having a cup of tea because it was. We got pissed, got hammered and had a laugh. Nobody was raping virgins or slaughtering animals, it was just so exciting knowing that you were part of something that would be remembered forever. It’s a good job I didn’t know then what I do now it would’ve driven me round the bend. We weren’t blasé about it though, we knew it was super super special and we were all very privileged to be there.

I preferred the intimacy of the small gigs but Maine Rd was ace, the second night in particular. I was e’d off my face in the top tier of The Kippax and nearly fell out. Knebworth was too big, and Loch Lomond. The Cork gig was good but that is because of the crowd. It all blurs into one, not cos I was off my head all the time but there was so many gigs. I loved the start, when it was all just kicking off, there was a real buzz and we were like a secret little gang.

Putting a Rolls Royce in a swimming pool…

The Be Here Now album, which incidentally a lot of people slag off including Noel, is a fucking great record. The original idea was to shoot the individual band members at any location in the world of their choice to make a composite image. Noel wanted to go to the mountain from Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, Guigs wanted to go to Jamaica but we changed our minds in the end, nothing to do with budget mind, we could’ve have done anything we wanted. Bonehead wanted to be shot next to a pool with a Rolls Royce in it to hark back to the Keith Moon story which never actually happened, so that was that and we set about finding a location that would let us put a car in their swimming pool. Despite what people think that wasn’t done digitally, that car is in that pool. It was scrapped with no engine and it cost us a grand. And all the props around the pool have no meaning whatsoever, I just took Liam and Noel down to a BBC props warehouse in White City and they picked loads of random stuff, it was total nonsense. It’s a sign of what was going on at the time, people say it was over-produced or whatever but it’s Be Here Now for fuck’s sake. It’s bollocks, it’s Oasis’ last great album…

On stopping working with Oasis…

There was no fall out, I worked again on the 10 year anniversary of Definitely Maybe DVD. It was a crazy time, half the band had left, Guigs had gone, everyone’s head was up their arse, Noel and Liam were falling out and Noel wanted to go in a new direction. I didn’t have a god given right to do it, Robert Freeman did four or five Beatles albums and didn’t do the rest, that’s the way it goes. As it happens it was probably best I didn’t do the others. Oasis was the best time of my life and I’ll always look back on it with incredible fondness and it certainly didn’t do my career any harm. No hard feelings, no animosity, no fallout.

On current bands…

I’d love to work with the Arctic Monkeys. They carry the torch, it goes all the way back to the Pistols, then The Smiths, then the Roses and Mondays, then Oasis and now it’s the Arctic Monkeys, I’d love to work with them, stick that in, they might get in touch. Apart from that, there’s a young band from Wigan called GlassHeads who I think are brilliant. Theres another band who I like called The Suzuki’s who are like a british Nirvana without being maudlin. And I thought Beyonce was ace at Glastonbury, what a fucking performance. But I can’t be arsed with Coldplay, middle-class kids who try so hard to be cool, defacing pianos and guitars. Just fuck off.

On Noel’s album

Noel’s a genius songwriter and you don’t lose a talent like that. I haven’t heard any of the stuff but I hope it’s really, really, really good because if it is it will be ace and loads of people will get onto it. He’s an amazing person, top bloke to work for, genius songwriter and I’m expecting great things. But when you’ve got Definitely Maybe as a yardstick it’s difficult isn’t it?

Noel Gallagher solo gigography, and Low Lying Turds tour dates

(although his blinded fans say he's a "new solo artist", it's 20 years he's around and already played "solo" gigs previously (the first one in 1994), with the help of other people of course, as the Unplugged 1996, the gig for Tibet, the tour in 2006-2007, London, Milan, Manchester, Moscow, Los Angeles, Toronto, Paris, Australia, etc.)

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"He’s like an old woman with her soup, in a world of forks."— Liam Gallagher about his sister Noel Gallagher

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..... song of the summer 2013

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photo in California. The album went gold and received good reviews (unlike Noel - 23 negative ones from music magazines), they also had the best selling vinyls. The singles were published on vinyl only, Noel didn't understand. His totally American album had the Usa as target and he was 28th there. Clearly a fail, hidden by the media

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songs of the summer 2012 & 2011

..... Noel the leech, the looter, the parasite... the little bitch.

added: Ocean child, Golden brown, Damaged, Feel the pain, Hi-heel sneakers, Je so' pazzo, Summer in the city, etc. (should have added Stone Roses too and many more)..... as Tony said, the first 3 Oasis albums were made thanks to the Real People... (Columbia, Supersonic, Whatever, Rockin' Chair, All around the world, Don't go away, etc. were not written by Noel)...concidentially, the first 3 albums are considered the only good ones...﻿

..... Oasis without Noel, the Boys in the Bubble (wanna be free)

..... Oasis' Hung in a bad place, by Gem

."I love Noel, but I'm not blind and Marco is RIGHT. After 40+ years of walking to and fro upon the Earth (look THAT reference up, if you dare), Noel is a master manipulator of people, particularly Liam and apparently also the fans and the media. There's not a category for LIAR of the Year, or he'd win that. Of course he will win Hero of the Year and Liam Villain of the Year (when it's REALLY the other way around). Beady Eye could also win the Worst Band Award from the Noel Musical Express." (fortunately, it didn't happen but he won the hilarious extra award "Godlike Genius", without people could vote for it...)

.“Noel’s got a lot of stories, but how many of them are actually true is another matter. Few of them are rooted in truth.”

(his best friend, Paul Weller)

."That's the thing that makes me want to throw up. I just look at Noel now and think, 'You're a fucking fake'."

(Liam)

“Someone was playing a joke when they made me, you know, ‘Let’s make this guy a writer and a guitar player, but let’s make him write with his left hand but play with his right, and let’s have him born in the middle of May and give him a Christmas name like Noel, and let’s make him a dodgy, schizophrenic, two-faced Gemini.’ Cheers!”(Noel Gallagher)

media darling Noel Gallagher telling lies to promote his album:

- Oasis split because of Liam- Oasis failed in the Usa (so they didn't have 4 top5 albums, sold out gigs in record times for a British band, etc.)- Oasis failed in the Usa because of Liam... (then Noel admitted they were successful)- Oasis split because of Pretty Green- he's not playing songs that were sung by Liam (then played Supersonic, Wonderwall, Whatever, It's good to be free, etc.)- Oasis split because of lack of support from management (sounds like he's not sure about the reason... in fact he then admitted 2 times that he doesn't know why...)- he's playing only 3 Oasis songs (then played 10)- Oasis split because of lack of support from band members, Andy, Gem, Chris- he's publishing his 2nd album in 2012, immediately after the first album, before the tour- his new songs are new and all written by him (his imaginary friend Gem doesn't think so...)- his shoes are new- Noel is friends with Gem- Liam bullied the band- he's not going to speak during the gigs- he doesn't want people to speak to him (then he had whole conversations)- Oasis didn't split because it was years he wanted to go solo (he wanted since 2000 album failing)

- he won't leave Oasis- Sara encouraged the solo career after Oasis split (not before eh...)- repeated a thousand times: there will be no Oasis reunion- there will be no Oasis reunion, not even for starving children- Oasis split because Liam was drunk in August 2009 (Noel avoided the court thanks to his mummy)

- there will be the Oasis reunion- he was not going to text Liam for Christmas- the work was harder in Oasis- the work is harder now- nobody in Oasis cared about the fans- nobody was listening to Oasis in the last years- his album is back in the top 10- he hates having pictures of him taken (he's vain as fuck)

- @ Olympics they asked him to mime so he didn't sing (they wouldn't have PAID him, and they know he can't sing. Beady Eye didn't mime)

- repeated a thousand times: the High Flying Birds disband November 2012 (they're still annoying around)

- Liam did not put down a vocal for Record Machine and Stop the clocks... the band members don't think so

- Noel doesn't care about Liam (he taks about him every time)- much more

1. "not even if all the starving children in the world depended on it"2. wishing to "catch AIDS and die". Wishing Liam to have the shittiest time of his life. Liam never said things like those3. insulting his own fans (but he's right about this)4. telling lies, long list5. insulting everybody, long list (often without even knowing the people). Insulting Oasis fans who made him rich6. leaving Oasis 3 times +excuses for not reforming7. the man who is still paying the most money for copying songs8. bigger than the Beatles, John Lennon was an idiot9. losing his British identity10. the man without a style

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..... somewhere down the line, YOU are Italian too. Watch your jealous tongue before saying anything against Italy

..... live in Milan. He was singing great, he also said: have a nice holiday, you deserve it :). During the whole concert, Superman Liam was wearing the Italian flag, never seen this. He even came off the stage near the people to touch him. There were even girls telling me to give him their bra ^_^ and to stay on the front row they even wanted to pay me, lol. Some even wanted to take a photo with me :D

In this video: photographers as in the video of Four Letter Word :)

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..... 1966 year of the World Cup in England, won by England

..... without Noel, in Budapest, Hungary. Go let it out + Roll with it + Led Zeppelin's Whole lotta love

..... my first Oasis gig

English girl+Milano Lambretta

"Italian" is not a nationality but a compliment

meaningful contact: Man's creation by Michelangelo

oasisblues - English tabloid, Italian paparazzi ^_^

..... fake City fan Noel Gallagher the jinx:

- was born in 1967, since then England didn't win any cup anymore

- supported England 2018 -> Russia won

- the other year, Noel: "justice will be done with 'them fucking communists' West Ham relegated" -> West Ham relegated

- Liam went to the stadium and City won the first cup in 35 years, Noel wasn't there

- Noel was @ 3 City games @ stadium in 2011/12 -> 3 defeats

- City spoke about Noel with Balotelli for one week -> 2 other defeats, United +8 points

- but at the end Liam went to the stadium and City won the first league in 44 years (shirt that LIAM had presented)

- Noel song What a life for England @ Euro 2012 -> England lost (well, nothing new)

- said England will beat Italy on penalties -> Italy dominated and won on penalties

In the same days: new AC Milan shop in Milan
..... the centre of the world. You can find a high definition version on miamilan.com

Milan Expo 2015, the new zone where Oasis had to perform their last concert in history... before the "break" of 5 years... strange coincidence, 2015... we're all part of a Masterplan...
(the music is the anthem of North Italy, capital city: Milan, of course, titled "Va pensiero - sull'ali dorate", "Go, thought - on golden wings", by Verdi).

A new Milan part with strange skyscrapers is gonna be called 'City Life'.

In his 'Tales From The Middle Of Nowhere', Noel refers to Italy as the bands’ 'spiritual home' and anyone who has been to an Oasis gig in Italy will know why. It’s fitting that Oasis have chosen Milan to stage the final show...but Noel left the band again, for the 3rd time, 2 days before

Be here now: a Milano Lambretta (name from Milan river Lambro), owned by Noel, and a Rolls-Royce. Photo at Stocks House hotel in Hertfordshire

..... Balotelli ahahaha and City symbol on Noel's guitar :). This tune was my alarm clock to wake up in the morning from '97 to 2000. At a 1997 gig after the first chord of 'Be here now' I was literally flying, gone fuckin' mad fer it, continuously shouting and jumping embraced with all the people. Best fun of my life.

"Italy why always you?! what is it with you Italians? why do you seem to 'get it' more than anyone else? it's a constant source of fascination for me"(arse-licker Noel)

"I'm currently in Milan. Its been fucking wonderful...it always is. It's fair to say The Italians love me and long may that continue 'cause I love them right back...the beautiful bastards. The gig was amazing, the kind of gig you'd never want to end. Easily my favourite so far."

Italian boys are like me, very passionate.4 elements mark them: football, music, family and love for elegance. My Italian friends are cool, they wear wonderful clothes and shoes, fabulous scarves, sunglasses even at night and beautiful women by their side. Well, I'm considered quite a holy figure in Italy, It's Milan... Italy's great man, I fucking love going there.

Milan is a beautiful city. Many people would pay for staying here. I almost never go shopping, what I like in Milan is the people.

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"We get chatting to Marco who was around for Paolo Nutini arriving and had given him a quick hand shake then sloped off, (you know how cool guys like to play it), he is really a Brit Indie lad at heart trapped inside the body of an Italian guy, his taste in music is fabulous. The tempo was troppo caldo (too hot weather), the Duomo is breathtaking to say the least. Milano women are ridiculously stylish and fabulously slim, gorgeous beings. The chef shaped my pizza into a love heart. Italian men are so smooth!"(Jacq)

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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

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"I've got the pre-emption over anyone proud boastin' music royalties about you :). When you told me to be not so good, I thought you were just humble. Now, on the contrary, I think you're a famous incognito singer, determined to cheer up the world with your voice, for free".(Selene)

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"nice jacket"

(Liam Gallagher embracing me)

the blue point in the middle

..... "Slide away" piano music: we have a real piece of Moon next to my house, that is Manchester City symbol. The World Cup too, it was made here by a Milan artist. You can see Capello table @ the Football English pub here and also Jesi, the town of former Inter Milan now City manager Mancini, where my uncle was born

..... here you can see Noel the bastard keeping a low volume for Liam's microphone as always, and very high for the instruments.

2009. I was at 3 Oasis gigs in 1 month, even climbing the Italian Alps, highest European mountains, and arriving first in Switzerland, my last Oasis gig, seen it on the front row in front of Noel winking an eye at me ;) (and Glasvegas did the same) playing as in room for me and two Swiss birds lol, the "veline" :))

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. And in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!'".(Jack Kerouac)

mad fer it !!!

"The one who's got right ideas among confused people, he's like one with a working clock in a city where all the clocks are wrong. He's the only one knowing the right time, but what's the use? Everybody's following the others one, even those who know the right time..."

(Schopenhauer)That was the meaning of the word "Oasis" (given by Liam), an isolated place in a desert."As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means".

Liam John Paul Gallagher

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..... Rockin' chair , my favourite song ever (written with the Real People).Video with a final surprise at the end...........I played this song till my fingers bled.The shape of England is not so different from Italy one.Notice the images and the turtle as my turtle Alberta in "I'm older than I wish to be" :) (and the turtle then is also on Noel plectrum, he played with it, I played with it).And yes, that pier in Weston-super-Mare was burnt. And Oasis are over now (definitely maybe).For going around we were still using a tour bus, and as it was our first time there, we had a big surprise when a bus full of British people overtook us, all of them smiling and waving their hands but suddenly they turned and showed us their arses ahahaha

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..... The meaning of soul (live in Milan @ Alcatraz) - This one's not for Marco :) but I dedicate it to Melissa, a girl with heart problems I took out from gig mayhem. Escape from Alcatraz ghghgh It used to be the song on English tv, for Premier League Sky Sports ad.
"...I'm a different breed, I'm outta your league, I'm 10 outta 10 alright... All rise, I see the love in your eyes, if it's alright then I'll be your light"
..... me parka, me scarf, me sideburns, me fucking everything. Everytime you put one, you just feel like you're fucking going to a war... And obviously buy it you fuckers! ahahaha
Me English blue navy Pretty Green scarf, a must-have: a soft, lightweight polka dot scarf made from 100% cotton and expertly hand-printed by Italy’s leading scarf producer

=Music never moved anything, not even in the '60s, at Vietnam times. Rock influences look, attitudes, but not politics. Maybe knowing him Lennon was an idiot, I wouldn't got on well with him and would have hated him. People speak too much of his life, pacifism, and so on, I'm interested only in his songs.

And if anybody organizes a march against war, I prefer going to the park with my daughter.

..... vote for Noel Prime Minister: 1) a good politician is a rich one, 2) more police on the streets

as all the greatest music albums covers, almost all Oasis albums covers have summat mysterious, it seems a curse. The last one had an atomic bomb... then they split. In '95 they put the pier of Weston-super-Mare on "Roll with it" cover, then it was burnt

in the little picture: Rodney Marsh, 1972-75 City player (and next to the tv: George Best). A poster of a young Burt Bacharach (from whom Noel copied Half the world away). They were watching The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, spaghetti western movie by the Italian director Sergio Leone, music by the great maestro Ennio Morricone. The room was at Bonehead's house. On the floor, a glass of wine, but it was bilberry juice

Heathen chemistry - the title came from a t-shirt Noel bought in Ibiza which featured a logo reading, "The Society of Heathen Chemists" - the photo was taken down the Paris tube

..... video with Milano Lambretta. Song written with the Real People, as also All around the world, Columbia (by Liam and the Griffiths), Rockin' chair, Whatever, Supersonic, etc.

2000, Twin Towers down there... before September 11... on the single "Sunday morning call" there was New York with a fallen glass... New York City skyline from the rooftop of the Rockefeller Center. The album's title was taken from the words made famous by Sir Isaac Newton: "If I can see further than anyone else, it is only because I am standing on the shoulders of giants". Noel saw the quote on the side of a £2 coin while in a pub and liked it so much he thought it would be a suitable name for the new album. He then wrote the name on the side of a cigarette packet while drunk. When he awoke in the morning, he realised he had written "Standing on the Shoulder of Giants", not "shoulders"

What's the story morning glory - the most famous Oasis album - London at dawn, Soho, Berwick Street, known for its independent record shops. On the left it's Sister Ray records shop, then it went into administration...

"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphisics of books".
(Walt Whitman)
..... "What's the story morning glory?", American expression (something like "what's up?"), but also spicy thai vegetable :), and girls say that is also a morning male erection...
knowing Noel, it was taken from a song by Pink Floyd ...